Designing Studies to Ensure That Estimates of Test Accuracy Are Transferable

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2002 Mar 16

PMID 11895830

Citations 70

Authors

Les Irwig

Patrick Bossuyt

Paul Glasziou

Constantine Gatsonis

Jeroen Lijmer

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